Law and Crime

"One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals."

Rutherford B. Hayes

Human

Justice

Law and Crime

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognise."

Sarah M. Grimke

Human

Law and Crime

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Punishment is the last and least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime."

John Ruskin

Law and Crime

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason."

Edward Coke

Intellect, Judgement

Law and Crime

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Law and Crime

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"War is organized murder, and nothing else."

Henry John "Harry" Patch

Law and Crime

Peace and War

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"No one can earn a million dollars honestly."

William Jennings Bryan

Law and Crime

Manners and Ethics

Richness and Money

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it."

Andrew Young

Law and Crime

Richness and Money

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation."

Howard Scott

Law and Crime

Richness and Money

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A compromise is an agreement whereby both parties get what neither of them wanted."

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Justice

Law and Crime

Rating: 7.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on."

Samuel Goldwyn

Law and Crime

Richness and Money

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Nature is the only murderer who is not convicted."

Kazimierz Matan

Law and Crime

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Wealthy criminals are the only refuge for morally bankrupt attorneys."

Johnny Cochran

Law and Crime

Richness and Money

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man."

Jean Genet "Notes for The Screens"

Human

Law and Crime

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Court Room Trial: Manipulation of the facts by two High-Priced salesmen, each attempting to sell his own version of the truth."

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Law and Crime

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!"

Elizabeth Gaskell "Wives and Daughters"

Justice

Law and Crime

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"An unjust law is itself a species of violence."

Mahatma Gandhi "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

Justice

Law and Crime

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Nature has given women so much power that the law has wisely given them very little."

Samuel Johnson

Law and Crime

Power and Weakness

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The law says you can have only one spouse. This is called monotony."

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Law and Crime

Marriage

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give."

Katharine Fullerton Gerould "Modes and Morals"

Law and Crime

Life and Death

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Don't confuse what you got a right to do with what's right to do."

William Bennett

Good and Evil

Law and Crime

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The difference between outlaws and inlaws is outlaws are wanted."

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Justice

Law and Crime

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes."

Stanley Kubrick

History and Nations

Law and Crime

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Law and Crime

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?"

Bertolt Brecht "The Threepenny Opera"

Law and Crime

Richness and Money

Rating: 2.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Law stands mute in the midst of arms."

Marcus Tullius Cicero "Pro Milone"

Law and Crime

Peace and War

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."

Jeremy Bentham

Law and Crime

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

Albert Einstein

Courage and Fear

Good and Evil

Law and Crime

Rating: 9.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause."

Charles Morgan

Law and Crime

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Crime is naught but misdirected energy."

Emma Goldman "Anarchism and Other Essays"

Law and Crime

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them."

Anthony de Mello

Law and Crime

Love

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be."

Raymond Chandler "The Long Goodbye"

Justice

Law and Crime

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness

Law and Crime

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Justice

Law and Crime

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."

Edmund Burke

Law and Crime

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!"

May Sarton

Law and Crime

Love

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen."

George Savile

Law and Crime

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The law often allows what honor forbids."

Bernard Joseph Saurin

Law and Crime

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals."

Henry Louis Mencken

Law and Crime

Manners and Ethics

Time and Passing

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established."

Blaise Pascal "Pensées"

Justice

Law and Crime

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!"

Shana Alexander "State-by-State Guide to Women`s Legal Rights"

Law and Crime

Marriage

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free. "

Henry David Thoreau "Slavery in Massachusetts"

Freedom and Servitude

Human

Law and Crime

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents - if the term is to be used at all."

Bernadette McAliskey

Family and Loneliness

Law and Crime

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers."

Charles Dickens "The Old Curiosity Shop"

Good and Evil

Law and Crime

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society."

E. L. Doctorow

Law and Crime

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both."

George Bernard Shaw "Misalliance"

Authority, Government

Law and Crime

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you."

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Law and Crime

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."

Francis Bacon "Essays"

Anger

Justice

Law and Crime

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)